Everything2
Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Full Text
Everything2

Colour or Country

created by tellelin

(idea) by tellelin (5.3 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Wed Aug 28 2002 at 22:04:44

'Colour or Country' is something of a party game, suitable for any number of people greater than or equal to 2. The game is deceptively simple, but allows for many layers of strategy; much of the complexity is hidden deep beneath the surface.

The rules are as follows:
  1. Players take turns in order; on your turn, you name a colour or a country.
  2. If you name a country, you lose.
Despite the apparent simplicity, the amount of strategy employed by expert players is truly amazing.

The 2002 Colour or Country World Championships were held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and were hosted by Mathcamp 2002. The reigning Colour or Country champion is Cortland Setlow, of the United States of America.

Some advice on how to play successfully, from one of the better-known professional players:
The key is that if you play to "win"... it'll get boring very quickly. It's especially fun to play late in the morning. To wit:

Cortland: "Caramelized onion caramel."
Player 1: "Caramelized onion onion."
Player 2: "Onion onion."
... (some intervening space)
Player 1: "Onion onion onion."

We don't know what sort of color onion onion onion is... but it most definitely is. As is Peru, and as is Taiwan (which is a sort of light pink - the pink of pink lemonade).
References:
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~shulman/cgi/view/Journal/ColorOrCountry
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=staticentropy&itemid=51386


For further information, see: sarcasm

printable version
chaos

Mathcamp Sarcasm Sticky Fingers star fraction
isomorphism sumbit Rules of Mornington Crescent Mornington Crescent
Y'know, if you log in, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site. Create a New User if you don't already have an account.
  Epicenter
Login
Password

password reminder
register

Everything2 Help

Cool Staff Picks
Nodes to live by:
Christmas Eve, 1996
Some people break so easily
Dune
I am uglier than you imagine
How to teach art to a four-year-old
Asperger's syndrome
Books
my father, at ease.
Ten reasons why creation scientists don't believe in evolution
Why do joints crack?
Romans 8
Greenwich Mean Time
A brief history of books
New Writeups
Tildeee
IANAL(idea)
antigravpussy
One fly amongst many(person)
sam512
Moon Base Shackleton, 1978(fiction)
Pavlovna
toy boy(person)
XWiz
tear jerker(review)
Heitah
Anarchy is Order(idea)
jessicaj
July 26, 2008(dream)
Berek
ABBA(person)
devolution
k-hole(place)
Nadine_2
The Sound Of Madness(review)
SwimmingMonkey
Conversations with Fo Fo, the Loneliest dog in Purgatory(fiction)
locke baron
lynx(thing)
Simulacron3
Reality, Dimensions and the Natural Ontology(essay)
SubSane
Making Love to a 9-Foot Woman(person)
Ouzo
Thoughts(idea)
Everything 2 is brought to you by the letter C and The Everything Development Company